Degree: BACHELOR
Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)
ECTS: 240
Fields of study: Economics, Digital Economics, Business Behaviour, Financial Flows, Production Processes
Languages of instruction: Russian, English (on request)

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of the programme is to provide future graduates with knowledge, skills and abilities with which they will be able to achieve high competitiveness potential in the labour market and successfully apply it to increase the growth and well-being of Russia, through the development of personal qualities, the formation of universal and general professional competencies defined by the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education.

AIMS

analytical activity:
•    searching information on the received assignment, collecting and analysing data necessary for conducting certain economic calculations;
•    processing economic data sets in accordance with the given assignment, analysing, assessing and interpreting the results obtained and justifying the conclusions;
•    building standard theoretical and econometric models for the studied processes, phenomena and objects related to the field of professional activity, analysing and interpreting the results obtained;
•    analysing and interpreting indicators characterising socioeconomic processes and phenomena at the micro- and macrolevel both in Russia and abroad.

financial activity:
•    making financial calculations and implementing financial operations;
•    implementing operations related to the execution of the main functions by institutions of the Bank of Russia;
•    performing intrabank operations;
•    implementing professional application of the legislation and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation regulating financial activities.

calculating and economic activity:
•    preparing initial data to perform calculations of economic and socioeconomic indicators characterising business activities;
•    performing calculations of economic and socioeconomic indicators based on standard methods, taking into account the existing regulatory framework;
•    developing economic units in the plans of enterprises of various forms of ownership, as well as organisations and agencies.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the course the student should be able to:
•    collect and analyse data, justify the optimal solution based on developed target indicators using modern digital technologies;
•    monitor the market of financial products and services, including through the use of modern information and communication technology, as well as analyse and interpret data to make financial decisions;
•    select financial products and services and provide financial advice;
•    perform loan product selection for potential borrowers and assess their solvency and creditworthiness using financial analysis methods and scoring models;
•    develop investment projects, select and justify their financing schemes, assess their effectiveness and risks for financial solutions.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

A graduate who has successfully mastered the programme is able to carry out professional activities in various structural units of commercial banks and the Central Bank, in planning and economics departments at enterprises, in accounting departments in commercial organisations with all legal forms of ownership, including those operating under various tax regimes, in consulting agencies, in insurance companies, as well as in positions requiring higher economic education.